[[File:BumbleboreMcGeegeeHARRY.PNG|thumb|left|[[Albus Dumbledore]] leaving [[Harry Potter]] on the [[Dursley family|Dursley]]s' [[4 Privet Drive|doorstep]] on this day in [[1981]].]]

[[File:BumbleboreMcGeegeeHARRY.PNG|thumb|left|[[Albus Dumbledore]] leaving [[Harry Potter]] on the [[Dursley family|Dursley]]s' [[4 Privet Drive|doorstep]] on this day in [[1981]].]]

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*[[1981]]: [[Rubeus Hagrid]] rescues baby [[Harry Potter]] from the ruins of the [[Godric's Hollow|Potter Cottage]], after the murder of [[James Potter I|James]] and [[Lily Evans|Lily Potter]]. [[Albus Dumbledore]], [[Minerva McGonagall]] and [[Rubeus Hagrid]] leave Harry on the [[Dursley family|Dursleys]]' [[4 Privet Drive|doorstep]]. All over Britain, celebrations of the end of the [[First Wizarding War|War]] result in a night of large-scale breaches of the [[International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy]], which [[Minister for Magic]] [[Millicent Bagnold]] famously went on to defend with the words "''I assert our inalienable right to party''". [[Sirius Black]] confronts [[Peter Pettigrew]] on the betrayal of James and Lily Potter, but Pettigrew escapes after [[Blasting Curse|blowing up]] the street they were on, killing [[Peter Pettigrew's victims|twelve Muggles]]. Pettigrew goes into hiding in his [[Animagus]] form of a [[Peter Pettigrew|rat]]. Black is arrested shortly after and convicted, without a trial, for killing Pettigrew and for committing Pettigrew's crimes.

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*[[1981]]: [[Rubeus Hagrid]] rescues baby [[Harry Potter]] from the ruins of the [[Godric's Hollow|Potter Cottage]], after the murder of [[James Potter I|James]] and [[Lily Evans|Lily Potter]]. [[Albus Dumbledore]], [[Minerva McGonagall]] and [[Rubeus Hagrid]] leave Harry on the [[Dursley family|Dursleys]]' [[4 Privet Drive|doorstep]]. All over Britain, [[Fall of Lord Voldemort celebrations|celebrations]] of the end of the [[First Wizarding War|War]] result in a night of large-scale breaches of the [[International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy]], which [[Minister for Magic]] [[Millicent Bagnold]] famously went on to defend with the words "''I assert our inalienable right to party''". [[Sirius Black]] confronts [[Peter Pettigrew]] on the betrayal of James and Lily Potter, but Pettigrew escapes after [[Blasting Curse|blowing up]] the street they were on, killing [[Peter Pettigrew's victims|twelve Muggles]]. Pettigrew goes into hiding in his [[Animagus]] form of a [[Peter Pettigrew|rat]]. Black is arrested shortly after and convicted, without a trial, for killing Pettigrew and for committing Pettigrew's crimes.

*[[1993]]: At three a.m. the staff ends searching [[Hogwarts Castle]] for any sign of [[Sirius Black]].

*[[1993]]: At three a.m. the staff ends searching [[Hogwarts Castle]] for any sign of [[Sirius Black]].

*[[1994]]: [[Harry Potter]] writes to [[Sirius Black]] about the [[Goblet of Fire]] selecting him as a ''fourth'' Triwizard Champion, using one of the school's owls.

*[[1994]]: [[Harry Potter]] writes to [[Sirius Black]] about the [[Goblet of Fire]] selecting him as a ''fourth'' Triwizard Champion, using one of the school's owls.